Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 10
सहयज्ञा: प्रजा: सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापति: ।
अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक् ।।
saha-yajñā: prajā: sṛṣṭvā purovāca prajāpati:
anena prasaviṣyadhvam-eṣa vo’stviṣṭa-kāma-dhuk – 3.10
Creating humanity with the scope and power of Yajña, Prajāpati, the Creator, pronounced: “By this, grow and multiply. May this Yajña awareness be the wish-yielding cow for you.”
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 10
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
After introducing the concept of Yajña, which has the grace to liberate the mind from the stranglehold of bondage, constriction, Krishna elaborates the subject, showing how ancient and compulsive its place and purpose are.
Humans differ from the rest of life-forms on earth. With a mind to think, an intelligence to understand and a tongue to articulate, the human rises above all beings. But he should adhere to the spirit of Yajña, making his life noble, beneficial and benedictory in all ways.
By citing that the Creator himself had enjoined Yajña, sacrifice, on the human, Krishna links the concept to a primordial note, rendering its sanctity and compulsion manifold. None has any option in the matter of observing or adhering to it. It makes life on earth beautiful, wholesome and benevolent.
